Premier League Unveils 20 Seasons Awards shortlists

Football fans are being invited to vote for their favourite moments in Premier League history as part of the 20 Season celebrations of the world’s most followed football league.

To celebrate two decades of Premier League football we are asking supporters to honour the greatest players, managers and landmarks. The Premier League has created shortlists for 11 categories, five of which will be determined by a public vote and six by a panel. The public will be able to vote for Goal of the 20 Seasons, Match of the 20 Seasons, Save of the 20 Seasons, and Celebration of the 20 Seasons.

Fans are able to submit their selections in the public vote categories through a specially-designed microsite at www.premierleague.com/20Seasons, which will be live until Monday 30 April. As well as revealing the category shortlists, the Premier League 20 Seasons website will have video clips of all the nominations so that fans can re-live the shortlisted goals, matches, saves and celebrations to help make their selections.

The Panel, which is made up of leading football figures, journalists and commentators, are voting for Player of the 20 Seasons, Manager of the 20 Seasons, Team of the 20 Seasons (from one individual season), Season of the 20 Seasons, and Most Memorable Quote of the 20 Seasons.

As well as those nine awards, both the public and the panel are to choose Fantasy Teams of the 20 Seasons from a shortlist of 80 players. There are 10 shortlisted players by each position and to create their perfect first X1, fans must pick: 1x goalkeeper; 1x right back, 1x left back, 2x centre back; 1x right midfield, 1x left midfield, 2x centre midfield; 2x forward.

The full shortlists are below.

The shortlists for all the categories have been created by nominations submitted by all UK national newspapers as well as the Premier League’s five live Broadcast Partners in the UK.

A number of the winners will be honoured at a special presentation ceremony on Tuesday 15th May.

Memorable Quote of the 20 Seasons
1. Eric Cantona – When the seagulls follow the trawler
2. Alan Hansen – You can’t win anything with kids
3. Kevin Keegan – I will love it if we beat them
4. Sir Alex Ferguson – Squeaky bum time
5. Jose Mourinho – I think I am the special one